Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc (GVL)

1. Sustainable palm oil policy or commitment for all its operations?

2. Policy or commitment applies to direct and third-party suppliers?

The company only states that it "expects employees and suppliers to act in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. We require them to comply with applicable laws and regulations.".

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

General Manager of Sustainability.

4. Sustainability report published within last two years?

5. Member of multiple industry schemes or other external initiatives to improve sustainability in relation to palm oil?

TFA2020, HCS.

6. Verification report on compliance with POIG Charter, if a POIG member?

This indicator has been disabled as the company is not a POIG member.

7. Activities with government, NGOs or academic institutions to improve palm oil sustainability?

8. Total land area managed/controlled for oil palm (ha)?

40554

9. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

17020

10. Plasma/scheme smallholders planted area (ha)?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no scheme smallholders.

11. Unplanted (areas designated for future planting) (ha)?

12314

12. Conservation set-aside area, including HCV area (ha)?

11482

13. Area for infrastructure (ha)?

14. Number and names of company owned mills?

1

15. Maps or coordinates of company owned mills?

16. Number and names of supplier mills?

This indicator has been disabled as only applicable to traders.

17. Maps of estates/management units?

18. Maps of scheme/plasma smallholders?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no scheme smallholders.

19. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to mill level?

This indicator has been disabled as only applicable to traders.

20. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to plantation level?

The company states it only sources from its own plantations.

21. Percentage of supply traceable to mill level (above 80%)?

This indicator has been disabled as only applicable to traders.

22. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from own mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

100%

23. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from supplier mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

This indicator has been disabled as only applicable to traders.

24. Commitment to zero deforestation?

25. Deforestation commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has neither scheme smallholders or independent suppliers.

26. Criteria for defining deforestation?

HCV, HCS, buffer zones.

27. Evidence of monitoring deforestation?

28. Examples of habitat management and/or habitat restoration?

29. Implementing a landscape-level approach to biodiversity conservation?

30. Commitment to biodiversity conservation?

31. Commitment to not endanger species of conservation concern, referencing international or national system of species classification?

The company commits to protect endangered, rare or threatened species but does not reference a system of classification.

32. Commitment to no hunting or only sustainable hunting of species?

The company commits to no hunting on its own concessions and allows traditional community rights for hunting and collection. However the company does not refer to sustainable hunting of species that does not cause decline of local populations.

33. Examples of species conservation activities?

The company only mentions a chimpanzee monitoring project and no further examples found.

34. Commitment to conduct High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments?

35. HCV commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has neither scheme smallholders nor independent suppliers.

36. Commitment to only use licensed High Conservation Value (HCV) assessors accredited by the HCV Resource Network's Assessor Licensing Scheme (ALS)?

The company commits to use "licensed assessors in compliance to EPA and RSPO / HCVRN requirements" however ALS is not explicitly mentioned.

37. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for planting undertaken prior to January 2015, and associated management and monitoring plans?

38. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for all estates planted since January 2015?

39. High Conservation Value (HCV) management and monitoring plans for all estates planted since January 2015?

40. Satisfactory review of all High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments undertaken since January 2015 by the HCV ALS Quality Panel?

41. Commitment to the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach?

42. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments?

The company has 13 HCS assessment reports listed on the HCS website which are pending review and not publicly available yet.

43. Commitment to conduct social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs)?

44. Social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs) undertaken, and associated management and monitoring plans?

45. Commitment to no planting on peat of any depth?

46. Peat commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has neither scheme smallholders nor independent suppliers.

47. Commitment to best management practices for soils and peat?

48. Landbank or planted area on peat?

0

49. Evidence of best management practices for soils and peat?

50. Commitment to zero burning?

51. Zero burning commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has neither scheme smallholders nor independent suppliers.

52. Evidence of management and monitoring fires?

The company uses RSPO firewatch for monitoring fires however no information on fire management activities found.

53. Details/number of hotspots/fires in company estates?

54. Details/number of hotspots/fires within surrounding landscape/smallholders?

55. Time-bound commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity?

56. GHG emissions from land use change?

57. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

58. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

59. Percentage of mills with methane capture (100%)?

60. Time-bound commitment to improve water use per tonne of FFB Processed?

61. Time-bound commitment to improve water quality (BOD and COD)?

62. Progress towards commitment on water use?

63. Progress towards commitment on water quality (BOD and COD)?

64. Protection of natural waterways through buffer zones?

The company states it protects HCV areas including riparian zones however it is unclear if this commitment covers all operations.

65. Evidence of treating palm oil mill effluent (POME)?

66. Commitment to minimise the use of chemicals, including pesticides and chemical fertilisers?

67. No use of paraquat?

68. No use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides?

69. No use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention?

70. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

71. Chemical usage per ha or list of chemicals used?

72. Commitment to human rights, referencing the UN Declaration of Human Rights or UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights?

73. Commitment to human rights applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has neither scheme smallholders nor independent suppliers.

74. Commitment to respect legal and customary land tenure rights?

The company commits to customary rights but legal rights are not mentioned in commitment.

75. Commitment to respect indigenous and local communities' rights, referencing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or ILO 169?

76. Commitment to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)?

77. FPIC commitment applies to independent suppliers?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no independent suppliers.

78. Details of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) process available?

79. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

The company provides very limited detail regarding addressing land conflicts.

80. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

81. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

82. Commitment to respect all workers' rights?

The company only states all workers without specifying both permanent and temporary employees.

83. Reference to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles?

84. Total number of employees?

3600 - Approximate figure.

85. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

86. Percentage or number of women employees?

87. Commitment to pay minimum wage?

The company commits to pay the legal minimum wage but no evidence is provided.

88. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

89. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

90. Number of fatalities as a result of work-based accidents?

91. Provision of personal protective equipment and pesticide training?

92. Member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)?

The company voluntarily withdrawn from the RSPO in July 2018.

93. Submitted most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

94. Listed all countries and regions in which operates in most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

95. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of estates within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of estates?

The company voluntarily withdrawn from the RSPO in July 2018. It had a target to 100% certification by 2021.

96. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of scheme/associated smallholders within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of scheme/associated smallholders?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no scheme smallholders.

97. Year expected to achieve 100% RSPO certification of all palm product processing facilities?

This indicator has been disabled as only applicable to traders.

98. RSPO-certified within three years of joining the RSPO or by November 2010, for companies joining prior to finalisation of the RSPO certification systems in November 2007?

The company voluntarily withdrawn from the RSPO in July 2018. The first mill was inaugurated in 2017 and had a target to certify 100% of operations by 2021 which is outside of the three years.

99. Percentage of mills RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

The company voluntarily withdrawn from the RSPO in July 2018. It had no mills certified.

100. Percentage of area (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

The company voluntarily withdrawn from the RSPO in July 2018. It had no estates certified.

101. Percentage of scheme/associated smallholders (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no scheme smallholders.

102. Percentage of FFB supply (tonnes) from independent FFB suppliers that is RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no independent smallholders.

103. Percentage of all palm oil and oil palm products handled/traded/processed (tonnes) that are RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator has been disabled as only applicable to traders.

104. Sells or processes/trades RSPO-certified palm oil through Segregated or Identity Preserved supply chains?

The company voluntarily withdrawn from the RSPO in July 2018. It had no estates or mills certified.

105. Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certified (100%)?

This indicator has been disabled as the company does not operate in Indonesia.

106. Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified?

This indicator has been disabled as the company does not operate in Malaysia.

107. Certified under voluntary sustainability certification scheme (e.g. ISCC, SAN, RSB, etc.)?

108. Programme to support scheme smallholders?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no scheme smallholders.

109. Number or percentage of scheme smallholders involved in programme?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no scheme smallholders.

110. Programme to support independent smallholders?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no independent smallholders.

111. Number or percentage of independent smallholders involved in programme?

This indicator has been disabled as the company has no independent smallholders.

112. Process used to prioritise, assess and/or engage suppliers on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

113. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

The company only states that it will not do business with suppliers that are associated with unethical practices however no details on specific criteria or the exclusion process is given.

114. Percentage of suppliers assessed and/or engaged on compliance with company requirements?

115. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

116. Whistleblowing procedure?

The company allows for whistleblowing and states that whistleblowers are protected, but no details on the procedure are given.

117. Own grievance or complaints system?

118. Grievance or complaints system is accessible to internal and external stakeholders?

The company has a grievance SOP but it is unclear if this is accessible to external stakeholders as no specific details given on how to submit a grievance to the system externally.

119. Details of grievances disclosed?